A return to modesty : discovering the lost virtue
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A return to modesty : discovering the lost virtue
（A Touchstone book）
Simon and Schuster, 2000
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-278) and index
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Description
At the same time that young women today enjoy the right to unparalleled opportunities, Wendy Shalit argues, there has been a marked increase in sexual harrassment and date-rape. With sex education beginning at school and sexual promisicuity encouraged in the media and at college, it has become almost impossible for a young woman to say 'no' to sex. Those who do are labelled 'repressed' and their desire for romantic love is ridiculed. Is it any wonder that young women today suffer from anorexia, bulimia, and other disorders? In A RETURN TO MODESTY Shalit explores the philosophical debate over modesty and knocks down the accompanying myths one by one. Female modesty is not about a 'sexual double standard', as is often thought, but is related to male virtue and honour. Modesty is not a social construct, but a natural response. And modesty is not prudery, but a way to preserve a sense of the erotic in our lives. By asserting their right to take intimacy seriously, girls can find the happiness they would otherwise be denied in a culture that has discarded the idea of feminine virtue.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction
PART ONE. THE PROBLEM
One The War on Embarrassment
Two Postmodern Sexual Etiquette, from Hook-up to Checkup
Three The Fallout
Four New Perversions
PART TWO. THE FORGOTTEN IDEAL
Five Forgiving Modesty
Six The Great Deception
Seven Can Modesty Be Natural?
Eight Male Character
PART THREE. THE RETURN
Nine Against the Curing of Womanhood
Ten Modesty and the Erotic
Eleven Pining for Interference
Twelve Beyond Modernity
A Modest Conclusion: Innocence
Appendix: Some Modest Advice
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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